inscribe
verb (used with object)
to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
is inscribing
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present progressiveof inscribe (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2025
At her feet lies a letter that, presumably, was written by the lover whose initial she is inscribing.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Eschewing celebrated beauty spots, Armitage is inscribing his verse on industrial slabs placed in disused mines and quarries, creating a trail across the Pennines.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
As Emerson expresses it in his translation of Zoroaster, the poet's task is "inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world."
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
Kong Ho," exclaimed to himself the person who is inscribing these words, "here is an individual into whose discriminating ear it would be well to pour the exact happening without evasion.
From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah
